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Hi Zach, I think that the most important thing you have to consider is the repertoire. It will be a lot of work for evryone of these competitions, it is harder to do it if you don’t like wath you’re playing. In this period the three competitions that you mentioned have very different repertoire, Israel is all original works for harp, there are a lot of never recorded pieces, and lot of contemporary music, laskine is more free choice repertoire, Bloomington is very interesting also. Check with your teacher wich repertoire you like the most, personally I like the Isarel repertoire, but this is really personal taste.
I don’t think your technique should be involved in your decision, at this level I think it depends WATH you do, not How you do it 🙂
Hope this was helpful
Hi! I live in Switzerland and I want to buy the dvd of Harp Dreams, do you know if an ameican dvd works also in Europe? We had problems with the old VHS, they were different in the two continents.
thank you for your help
Hi, I’m not from North America but it’s 5 years that I’m going to this masterclass and maybe I can share some of my experience 🙂
Every year it is a wonderful moment. the master is located in this wonderful italian villa. You have to attend to all the lessons because she teach in a way that can be interesting for anyone that’s listening, but you still have planty of time to practice because we have the keys of the villa, and you can stay there all night long if you want. Normally the level is very hig and the lessons are never boring, she’s really great not only teaching harp but also sharing her experience that is really preacious. She’s great on helping memory, nerves, learning, plan the study etc. You go home with a lot of musical ideas.Every year a lot of people that’s preparing international competitions (israel, nehterland, bloomington) goes to her.there is an opening concert with great artists (belmondo, kumiko inoue, pasetti etc..)and a closing concert performed by the partecipants.
Hi! I played the suite ellenica and I worked the suite with Grisoni himself.
I’ve heard a lot of differents opinions about the suite. Personally I really love it, there are some movements that I like better than others but I find it is a really good work for harp. Some people does not like it because it’s too simple. Yes, is not complicated for the fingers, is not a virtuoso piece, but it requires a lot of musical maturity to make it interesting. You will like it if you like music with space and time inside, like the Prayer of Natra, you really have to sing and do a lot of legato with your harp. Last but not least, is a contemporary piece that is not too difficult for a standard audience.
scuse me for my english! 🙂
Elisai will be happy if you don’t be so critic. If i’m speaking about music power, power of the harmony, it means that i’ve some ideas, you can also desagree, but my opinion is not a consequence of ignorance. Of course i do some variations and i’m not saying that the urtext version is the only one that can be played, i just think that the other versions are beautiful pieces, but for me, the
I play the urtext version, because baroque music is too much important, is so beautiful, taht we can not
she is my teacher and i have read her book. i reccomend this book to all harpist, she is a wonderful teacher and she gives advices to become a great harpist!
i’m sorry for my english..i’m swiss 🙂
Emanuela degli Esposti from Italy has recorded the Around The Clock Suite on her solo album. It is very-well lpayed. You can find it at this link:
